Morgan Spurlock, the director of “Super Size Me”, was in Denmark for the premiere of his much talked-about comedy doc on the fast-food culture and industry in America. He claimed to be back to normal shape and weight after his rash experiment of eating McDo-food for a whole month. DOX met him.
“I agree totally that documentaries in public service television are one of the most important parts of the programme,” says Hans Robert Eisenhauer, ARTE’s Head of Theme Evenings since 1991 and also the Deputy Programme Director.
An old man is packing his things away, assisted by a young woman. Now they’ve reached the books.
Korean filmmaker Hosup Lee’s documentary “And Thereafter” caused heated moments in the Q&A session following the screening of the film at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival last October.
The political documentary film is back. Some will say that it never went away, and they may be right. Nevertheless, I will argue that it is more visible now than it has been since the 1970s.
The Centre uses a somewhat ridiculous proposition – the search for the point that is the exact centre of Europe – as an excuse to explore the diverse and often acrimonious cultural landscape of a rapidly changing continent.
Filmed shortly after the fall of the Taliban, Iranian actress and documentary filmmaker Yassamin Maleknasr crosses the border and does a round trip through the major areas of war torn Afghanistan, documenting the voices of a scarred and battered people.
Bulgaria. A home for psychologically challenged men. A doctor who is constantly on the move to improve the conditions of the men in the home. Every possibility must be looked into.
“Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel”, by Michel Khleifi and Eyal Sivan, had its US premiere at the San Francisco International Film Festival. The film had two sold-out screenings, one in Berkeley at the Pacific Film Archive and one in San Francisco at the AMC Kabuki Theater, where the majority of the festival screenings took place. Freelance writer Chuleenan Svetvilas interviewed the filmmakers after the Saturday afternoon screening of the four-and-a-half hour film in San Francisco.